---------------------------------------- > > severity 494418 important > # downgrading this bug referring to severity descriptions > thanks
I don't understand why you have downgraded the severity. >From http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities grave: makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes data loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the accounts of users who use the package. loss of emails is data loss so my understanding is that this bug qualifies as grave. > > Please send the output of fetchmail -vvv and fetchmail --configdump. I've editted /etc/default/fetchmail to add the line OPTIONS=-vvv output from ps shows that fetchmail is now being run as /usr/bin/fetchmail -vvv -f /etc/fetchmailrc --pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid -d 300 --syslog When I lose another email, I'll post the log. Here's the result of fetchmail --configdump # fetchmail --configdump fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged. TRUE=1; FALSE=0 os_type = 'linux' feature_options = ('pop3','imap','gssapi','sdps','etrn','odmr','ssl',) # Start of configuration initializer fetchmailrc = { 'poll_interval':0, "logfile":None, "idfile":"/root/.fetchids", "postmaster":"postmaster", 'bouncemail':TRUE, 'spambounce':FALSE, "properties":None, 'invisible':FALSE, 'showdots':TRUE, 'syslog':FALSE, 'servers': [] } # End of initializer > > As far as I can see this messages comes from exim (sink.c) > not from fetchmail. The text comes from exim4. However, it is fetchmail that logs the text. My understanding of the problem is that a) fetchmail has an e-mail from the pop3 server that needs to be sent to the local exim4. b) fetchmail has extracted a From address from the e-mail that is invalid. c) fetchmail uses this invalid From address which gets rejected by exim4 d) Instead of retrying with a made up valid From address (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]), fetchmail is logging exim4's rejection and discarding the e-mail. I don't know if the e-mail actually contains an invalid From address or if it contains a valid From address but fetchmail doesn't extract it correctly. However, that is a minor point. The main one being that an invalid From address should not cause loss of the e-mail. Bruce _________________________________________________________________ Got Game? Win Prizes in the Windows Live Hotmail Mobile Summer Games Trivia Contest http://www.gowindowslive.com/summergames?ocid=TXT_TAGHM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
